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W. E. JACOBS.

' SYRUP STRAINER.

.No. 65,751. Patnted June 11,1867.

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Letters Patent No. 65,751, dated June 11, 1867.

IMPROVED SIRUP-STRAINER.

l.() ALLWHOM IT MAY conceals:

Be it known that I, WlpLIAM E. .Lscons, of Columbus, Franklin county, State of Ohio, have invented a. new and improved Shop-Strainer; and I hereby declare th'efollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being hall to the accompanying drawings, in which- I I Figure 1 is a vertical section, taken longitudinally through the improved strainer.

Figure 2 is a top view of the strainer. H 7 Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention is designed to facilitate the separation of feculencies from sugar juice as it flows from the mill, by causing the juice to flow upward through a suitable strainer, and thus accumulating the sedimentulteneath the latter insteadof upon its surface, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation. In the accompanying drawings, A represents a vessel, which may be made ot'luniy suitable capacity and of any convenient shape. B represents a transverse partition, which extends from the top of the vessel A ncarl' to its bottom, and which divides this vessel into two apartments, (1 and b. 0 represents a. horizontal strai 16f,

' which is secured within the largest apartment b, at a point below the top of said vessel, and on a. level with t 0 bottom of a discharge opening, d, as shown in fig. 1. lhe strainer may he made of wire gauze, or of .n v. other suitable substance, and the vessel A may be made of metal or other suitable substance. The juice (l we from the mill or from a reservoir through a trough, 57, into the smallest apartment a, and passes beneath the partition B, which latter most of thefloating impurities will be arrested and precipitated. The juice rises in the apartment 6, and flows upward through the screen or strainer C, and then passes oil' through the outjet 11 above this strainer, as indicated by thearrows in fig. 1. Should the liquid flow too rapidly into the small st apartment-a, that is to say, faster than it could flow from tlie apartmeutb, it would be liable to press some of the impurities in this latter apartment against the lower surface of the strainer C, and thus retard the flow through the strainer. To obviate this the vessel A may be suspended by means of trunnions h It; so that in case the liquid in the apartment'a rises too higluabove the surface of the liquid in the apartment I), this lat-tor sill 1 of the vessel will suit until the-surface of the liquid in both apartments is level, or nearlyso.

It will be seen from the above (lescriptio that the sediment will be collected in the vessel A, beneath the strainer C, froluwhich vessel it can beread ly removed, and that the strainer will not be liable to become clogged, for the reason that the edimentefiihnot collect upon it, as in strainers which are so arranged that the liquid must pass down through them by its own gravity,-and leave all the sediment upon them.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A straining apparatus which consists of a box, A, having a division, B, audstrainer C applied within it, in snchmanner that the liquid to be strained shall pass upward throuo'h the strainer, substantially as described.

, i w. E. JACOBS. Vi'itnesses;

F. A. Jneons, H. L. Jncons. 

